Today, my husband and I told my parents that I finally managed to conceive. My mom burst into tears of joy and said how great it was that she's finally going to be a "real" grandma, all within earshot of our adopted and now-devastated daughter. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I overheard my mother-in-law say to her daughter "I can't wait for you to make me a real grandma." I'm pregnant with their first grandchild. FML
Today, I finally decided to tell my mother, a former Miss North Carolina winner, that I was several weeks pregnant. She immediately burst into tears and hugged me. She kept saying, "Thank god, thank god." At first I was relieved. Then she said, "I thought you were just getting fat." FML
Today, at a family reunion, my dad announced to everyone that I'd finally started my menstrual cycle. My grandmother started sobbing hysterically. FML
Today, my mom told me that she had great news: we were going to meet my biological parents. I didn't know I was adopted. FML
Today, my daughter and her boyfriend excitedly told me that after months of trying they are finally pregnant and that I'm going to be a grandmother. This would be great news if they weren't 15. FML
Today, my girlfriend and I broke the news to my parents that we're having a baby. The first words out of my dad's mouth were, "It's probably not yours." FML
Today, I was told by my wife that we were going to be parents. We are both females. FML
Today, my son had a child to spite his ex and ex-stepson. He was holding his daughter in his arms in the delivery room when he told me that now I can stop visiting his ex-stepson and pretending he’s my real grandchild, because now I have a real granddaughter. I’m speechless. FML
Today, after years of trying, I got the wonderful news that my husband is going to be a father. Too bad I’m not the mother. FML
Today, my daughter announced that she's pregnant. I'm going to be a 37 year-old grandmother. FML
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Top comments
ZelmaSlayer 30
Your daughter should cheer up! You can't choose your mother but she was chosen by you :)
isabelf 17
Some people can't keep their mouths shut.
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Comments (164)
ThePez828 18
My heart hurts for your daughter. That ignorant statement is something she may remember forever. I would be so, so pissed off at your mom if I were you. Congrats on the baby!
jlaw2000 6
I would have told the insensitive **** she now has no grandkids and never talked to her again.
SexxiKitty 20
I was adopted by my parents as a baby and I can tell you from experience how painful it is for family members to say things like that. My uncle (my mom's brother) refused to come to my wedding because "It's not like she's real family." I was really hurt by it. My parents never hid the fact that I was adopted and loved me wholeheartedly, so it was a really big shock that a family member could say that so nonchalantly. :(
everton99 16
I wonder if racism seriously played a part in this. They're in South Africa so the child they adopted may be black, and the grandma came from the time of apartheid so she may be partial towards white people. Either way I still can't see how you wouldn't count an adopted grandchild as your own. You should love them all the same. Color of the skin, blood, or adopted all children just wanna be loved.
Cherry83_fml 3
as some one who is adopted, her comment was just wrong. I'm sorry hun. hugs to your daughter!
Lisa_Kdubz 20
That's awful. My dad has always treated my adopted little sister like she's not a real part of the family when in reality she's more my sister than any of my older siblings who I barely know.
babydragons 3
wow. really? I'm sorry to hear that. your dad is an ass
MisterGasMoney 16
Why would you even think to say something like that? I'm absolutely disgusted.
thuai 1
when my cousin was born my grandma was "so happy to finally be a grandma". my mom had 4 kids and my aunt had one already. I understand how your daughter feels
TheAnon1313 28
I want to punch your mother square in her nose
cptncuttlefish 24
I would have banned that piece of shit from my home tbh, no family member should make children feel bad for things they have no control over.